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imane ayissi Presents
Karralokga
TRENDY
at the Paris Fashion Week, Spring Summer 2019 Imane Ayissi once again struck the spirits by the shimmering quality of his work. The Karralokga collection, a term that means catalog in Ewondo, his vernacular language of central Cameroon, was displayed at the Mona
Bismark American Center in the heart of the French capital on July 2, 2018.
Karralokga as the previous collection of the Cameroonian designer is an eclectic dosage of typically African textile cut in a style unique to Imane, that gives this exquisite appeal to the female silhouette.
This year Imane went for unpublished materials like raffia with these skirts directly inspiring Bikutsi dancers, a well-known rhythm in the Central African region. Going beyond his cradle, fashionistas also admired in this collection textiles from Senegal, Ghana, Gabon, Cape Verde, Senegal, Guinea Bissau or Madagascar.
The blend of Western and African culture was done in Imane's workshops where the result was a mixture of fabrics such as the Jacquard Manjak from Senegal or the Kita from Ivory Coast, allied with a daring fingering to silks or cottons from Italie, and France. Africa itself came together in a kind of model-based Pan-Africanism that has seen Imane combine fabrics and graphics from different parts of the continent for a dazzling result.
In 25 years of career Imane is one of the rare African designer whose constancy at the top of haute couture confirms the seriousness of his approach and his know-how. Claire.
Flashmag August 2018 www.flashmag.net
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